Product details
- ISBN 9780552773805
- Weight: 162g
- Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2007
- Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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'Simply written and highly memorable' Ireland on Sunday
'A subtle, calculatedly simple and ultimately moving story' Irish Times
'Stays ahead of its readers before delivering its killer-punch final pages' Independent
'A small wonder of a book . . . A particular historical moment, one that cannot be told too often' Guardian
'An extraordinary tale of friendship and the horrors of war...Raw literary talent at its best' Irish Independent
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What happens when innocence is confronted by monstrous evil?
Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country.All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no-one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas.
Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process.
John Boyne is the author of sixteen novels for adults, six for younger readers, a picture book and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet and opera. His many international bestsellers include The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky. He has won four Irish Book Awards, including Author of the Year in 2022, along with a host of other international literary prizes, including most recently both the 2025 Prix Femina Étranger and
the Prix du Roman FNAC in France for The Elements. His novels are published in sixty languages.
Twitter: @JohnBoyne
Instagram: @JohnBoyneAuthor
